Monday, October 17, 2011

This is an older piece and was posted on my older blog, but it's so awesome, that I need to repost it here. Thanks Matthew for the reminder! Head over here to find out more about it (making-ofs and music).

This workshop is intended as discussion about using light and color to create memorable images that support the story. Sharon will talk about her favorite images and why they captivate. Sharon Calahan joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1994 as lighting supervisor on the studio’s first feature film, Toy Story. She then served as director of photography on Toy Story, A Bug’s Life , Toy Story 2 , Finding Nemo , Ratatouille and Cars 2.Sharon knew at the age of three that she wanted to be an artist for Disney. She went on to study graphic design, illustration and photography. Following art school, she began her career as an art director for broadcast television and video production.Prior to joining Pixar, she was a lighting director at Pacific Data Images completing commercial work, longer format television, and graphics packages.

VIEW Conference is the premiere international event in Italy on Computer Graphics, Digital Cinema, 3D Animation, Gaming, VFX and Interactive Techniques. It will take place in Turin from 25th to 28th, preceded by the VIEWFest , the Computer Animation Festival (from 21st to 23rd October 2011).

Inspired by the ocean, theBlu is a global mission to create theworld's largest globally shared art and entertainment project of itskind on the web. It is a beautiful interactive online world whereevery species and habitat is a unique work of art created by globaldigital artists and developers from all walks of life. TheBlu is ageosocial web app where people connect across the Internet and explorea vast and growing ocean gallery on the web.